ACRLog » Erin Miller

Exactly 365 days ago I was exactly ten days into my job as the Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of North Texas. Well, actually – 365 days ago from today, July 13, 2015, was a Su...

https://acrlog.org/2015/07/13/no-longer-an-fyal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-longer-an-fyal

I am a huge sucker for personality tests. It started young, I think – I’ve known I was an INFJ/ENFJ since I was a kid. Over the years I’ve branched out from the Myers-Briggs and taken a wid...

https://acrlog.org/2015/06/10/it-takes-all-kinds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-takes-all-kinds

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be: meetings. — Dave Barry, “25 Things I Have ...

https://acrlog.org/2015/05/11/5530/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=5530

It always seems so unfair that people tend to get sick in the springtime. Just as the weeks of perfect temperatures and sunshine get underway and you want to be outside all the time just soaking ...

https://acrlog.org/2015/04/10/focus-and-spring-fevers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=focus-and-spring-fevers

I never gave it much thought, but I can remember wondering briefly in the past why the majority of librarians at many conferences seemed to be from academia. And now I know; it is probably beca...

https://acrlog.org/2015/03/10/conferences-full-of-academic-librarians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=conferences-full-of-academic-librarians

Yesterday I spent an hour going through my inbox, turning each email that needs attention into a task, saving the ones that I need into relevant folders on a shared drive, deleting some, categor...

https://acrlog.org/2015/02/10/a-day-or-3-in-the-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-day-or-3-in-the-life

Until I actually started writing my FYAL entry for January my plan was to write about academic interviews – how they are horrible (they kind of are!) but also what I like about them. However, ...

https://acrlog.org/2015/01/15/low-self-esteem-and-the-academic-librarian-maybe-it-is-just-me-it-is-probably-just-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=low-self-esteem-and-the-academic-librarian-maybe-it-is-just-me-it-is-probably-just-me

I have been thinking about the hiring process lately. Partly because I’ve so recently managed to get myself hired at the University of North Texas. I am also serving on a search committee for a...

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